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Q. But you don't know what concrete steps they may have taken once they got the information from him?

A. I do not. Of course we know now that shortly thereafter they got a vice award on one of the people who's dealt with in here. He's not dealt with in this memo, but he's dealt with in the later memos. I don't know there's any connection between these events. I do know in Director Comey's testimony he said — I'm sorry. Maybe I'm skipping ahead. As far as I know, they didn't — I don't know what they did.

Q. So then with regard to Mr. Steele's ongoing work, I presume that his work then continued after you got this first memo because we have additional memos between June?

A. Yes.

Q. Was there a discussion about whether and when he would take information to the FBI?

A. Not that I recall. After the initial memo he told me that he had briefed him. I don't remember anything specific about the issue arising again other than to say generally that as the summer progressed the situation with the hacking of 1-800-FOR-DEPO